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Nicholas Clagett (14 April 1686 – 8 December 1746) was an English bishop.


Life

Claggett was from a clerical family of
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. He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge aged 16 in April 1702, graduating B.A. in 1705–6, M.A. in 1709 and D.D. in 1724. He was appointed Archdeacon of Buckingham on 1 September 1722. After this he became Dean of Rochester on 8 February 1724, succeeding on the death of Samuel Pratt, and was elected bishop of St. David's, ''congé d'élire'' issued on 17 December 1731. He was allowed to hold ''in commendam'' the rectories of Shobrooke and of Overton in the diocese of Winchester. On 2 August 1742 he was translated, becoming
Bishop of Exeter The Bishop of Exeter is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in the Province of Canterbury. Since 30 April 2014 the ordinary has been Robert Atwell.
. He died on 8 Dec. 1746, and was buried at St. Margaret's, Westminster, with no epitaph.


Works

He published ''Articles of Enquiry for the Archdeaconry of Buckingham,'' 1732, and eleven sermons. One was preached before the House of Lords on the anniversary of Charles I's martyrdom, another on the consecration of Bishop White. A ''Persuasive to an ingenuous trial of Opinions in Religion'' (1685), sometimes ascribed to him, belongs rather to his father.


Family

He was son of
Nicholas Clagett the Younger Nicholas Clagett the Younger, D.D. (1654–1727), was an English controversialist. Life Clagett was the son of the Rev. Nicholas Clagett the elder, of Bury St. Edmunds, and the younger brother of the controversialist William Clagett. He was bap ...
, minister at Bury St. Edmunds, and nephew of the preacher William Clagett, both sons of the Puritan Nicholas Clagett the elder.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Clagett, Nicholas 1746 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Bishops of St Davids Bishops of Exeter Archdeacons of Buckingham Year of birth uncertain Burials at St Margaret's, Westminster Deans of Rochester 18th-century Church of England bishops 18th-century Welsh Anglican bishops 17th-century Anglican theologians 18th-century Anglican theologians